WoRMS source details
Kirkegaard, J. B. 2001. Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of Neopolynoe (Polynoidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81(3): 391-397.
50626
Publication
Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB
Polychaete worms obtained by RRS ‘Discovery’ from 200 to 4850 m north-west of Africa in 1979 contained 24 species of which five: Macellicephala violacea, Bathyeliosona abyssicola, Laetmonice filicornis, Maldanella harai and Potamilla torelli were present in the abyssal zone (>2000 m). Macellicephala violacea is widely distributed in the Arctic and the present record is the southern-most record of this species. Fifteen species were recorded from the bathyal zone, many of which have a wide distribution in the oceans. A Neopolynoe species from the bathyal zone is new to science.
Neopolynoe Loshamn, 1981 (additional source)
Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001 accepted as Neopolynoe chondrocladiae (Fauvel, 1943) (original description)
Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001 accepted as Neopolynoe chondrocladiae (Fauvel, 1943) (original description)
Habitat
Neopolynoe africana was found living in transparent tubes on the surface of a Chondrocladia sp. sponge. Elytra ... [details]